From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 8:10:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9F137B401 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 08:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.HoundsOfHeaven.com (216-93-126-013.mdmmi.voyager.net [216.93.126.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB39E43E3B for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 08:10:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@TechServSys.com) Received: from home (william [192.168.10.2]) by home.HoundsOfHeaven.com (8.8.8/SCO5) with ESMTP id LAA15294 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 11:10:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "bill" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 11:12:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: (Fwd) Re: Sendmail says, "Invalid domain name":solved Message-ID: <3D676A26.23777.ACA5C83@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23 Aug 2002 at 10:06, Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Friday 23 August 2002 09:57 am, bill wrote: > > I found the rejected posting in clientmqueue so I now know that sendmail > > reports this error: > > 510 5.0.0 Invalid domain name > > > > I tried putting the domain name in /etc/hosts, to no avail. > > nslookup can find the domain from the nameserver to which I point, anyone > > have any ideas why sendmail rejects the domain ? > > > > bill > > > > Have you checked your reverse-domain? > no matter what you say in resolv.conf Sendmail must have a dns that works and returns the domain. I solved this by changing the dns for tss to the new domain name to the test/local address and my problems all went away. (OK, not all my problems, I still need to work for a living.....) -bill- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message